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At 10 US hospitals, a discharge-focused audit-and-feedback intervention didn't lower antibiotic use at discharge when compared with the pre-intervention baseline.
A growing number of states are pushing back against sweeping changes to the US childhood vaccine schedule.
As of January 3, the CDC said there have been 17 pediatric flu deaths this season.
Cases rise as government leaders minimize the need for vaccines.
Investigators believe the genetically modified live attenuated vaccine could provide more potent immunity to cholera than the killed, whole-cell vaccines used in endemic areas and outbreak settings.
But vaccine uptake was suboptimal, particularly for the flu vaccine.
The new analysis draws on data from more than 54,000 pregnancies.
Gaps remain in implementing the rules established in the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act, the GAO says.
The announcement comes amid growing uncertainty around US vaccine policy.
The perceived prevalence of drug shortages was high, at 88%.
In a cohort study conducted in Sweden, antibiotic-exposed newborns had a 29% increased risk of group B Streptococcus disease compared with unexposed newborns.
The infected buck was taken by a hunter in the Richard K. Yancey Wildlife Management Area.
There are two licensed vaccines for Ebola virus, but no vaccines are licensed for Sudan virus or Marburg virus.
The CDC says 5,000 people nationwide have died from influenza so far this season.
Roughly 1 in 100 adults aged 65 and older with COVID were hospitalized each year of the study period.
The 2,144 confirmed US measles cases for all of 2025 reflect an increase of 79 infections.
Roughly half of TB meningitis patients die or incur severe, permanent damage.
A review and meta-analysis finds 68% of community pharmacies and other retail medicine outlets in sub-Saharan Africa regularly dispense antibiotics without a prescription.
Among polled adults, 1 in 10 were not sure what shared decision-making means.
The incidence of cervical lesions was 50% lower in unvaccinated women when vaccination was widespread.
